Rejecting Niebuhr's allegiance was not a matter of fame and reputation, but rather out of various considerations.
Lid Victory, his first identity is a human lord, and his territory only has a population of 1,000. If he accepts the surrender of these 2,000 trolls, what will he be? A human troll chief?
You must know that in the Eastern Kingdom Continent, the trolls and the human kingdom have a feud that lasts for thousands of years. If Li De becomes the "Troll Chief", it will be equivalent to extirpating himself from the human kingdom.
Those nobles who have ooze monsters living in their minds cannot tell the difference between forest trolls and sand trolls. In the short term, Li De has no plans to extirpate himself from the human kingdom.
In addition to these falsehoods, there is also Li De's consideration of his own strength.
The absolute majority in Tanaris are trolls, and the population of humans is only one-tenth that of trolls. It is dangerous for a few to rule the majority. The outcome is usually either overthrown or assimilated.
Li De did not want to be overthrown, nor did he intend to eat human flesh along with him.
Therefore, Li Decai designed such a three-community alliance.
Although in name, the three parties are equal partners, in fact, there must always be a superior among the allies. As time goes by and the situation develops, everyone knows who has the final say.
That night, Reed, Nogfogg, and Niebuhr talked all night. The next day, a decree written in the languages of the three tribes appeared in the territory and Gadgetzan:
Build an academy to learn the other party's language; the troll builds a team of 300 women and children to learn labor production in human territory; the troll builds a team of 500 young adults to carry out military training with Li De
; All remaining trolls participate in the development project; Gadgetzan is expanded to 5 times its current size; all trolls convert to the "God of the Desert".
And this is just a general charter. There are many details under each decree. For example, after trolls convert to the "God of the Desert", they need to abide by new doctrines. One of the most important ones is that they are not allowed to eat people.
There are many detailed rules such as these that need to be promoted step by step, so I won’t go into details here.
To put it simply, the trolls were divided into three. The new army following Li De was led by Niebuhr, with Angagagu as his adjutant; the Gadgetzan construction team was led by Trunuk; as for the last one
The labor production team in the territory is led by a young female troll named Veresa.
In the next two months, Li De led 500 trolls and 100 humans to clean up dangerous creatures in the desert and ambush Ukzi's men. Li De taught Nibuhr to become a qualified
commander, and taught him the essence of raiding operations by a small force.
Apart from this, Li De had nothing to teach him in terms of personal martial arts. According to the troll tradition, Niebuhr embarked on the path of a shadow shaman, which in layman's terms is a shadow hunter.
The way of shadow hunter, Niebuhr has his own inheritance, which requires him to grow in constant battles. What Li De taught him was exactly how to survive when he was weak and successfully grow into a powerful shadow hunter.
Two months passed quickly, and the trolls involved in production in the territory began to get used to a life of producing through labor rather than relying on robbery to fill their stomachs.
As a native race of Azeroth, trolls are actually a highly malleable race, which is why Li De is willing to cooperate with trolls:
At the very least, trolls are a species that emerged through natural evolution. They neither have the sinews of the Titans who were born with destiny, nor the distortion of the ancient gods who were born with original sin. Looking at the trolls from ancient times to the present
The history and purpose are nothing more than the purest survival.
Of course, this does not mean that trolls do not have their own problems. The biggest problems of trolls are two:
Their ancient history has caused them to have wars with almost all other races at different historical periods; and their extreme desire for religious belief has led to mixed results.
Li De has no intention of changing all the trolls. As long as he can change the sand trolls in Tanaris and help them develop smoothly, he will be satisfied.
"You have learned very quickly in the past two months. Now you can take charge of taking back your city on your own."
After two months of study, Li De almost mastered the common troll expressions and was able to talk to Niebuhr without the need for a translator.
"Thank you, teacher, I won't let you down."
It was a strange scene. The humans communicated in troll language, but the trolls responded in common language. After two months of getting along, Niebuhr also changed his title to Li De, from "high priest" to "teacher".
If Niebuhr only respected and appreciated Reed before, now he was completely impressed and regarded Reed as a guide from the bottom of his heart.
"From today on, you will lead this army alone, remember what I taught you."
Niebuhr subconsciously straightened his legs. Over the past two months, his waist had also straightened.
"Break the whole into parts, and add up a little to make a lot!"
Li De nodded with satisfaction. Although this new force only had 500 people, Li De believed that they were enough to retake Zul'Farrak:
Most people are always silent. There are now more than 7,000 trolls in Zul'Farrak, and it is impossible for all of them to be dragged onto the battlefield by Ukozi.
With the defeat of Antusul and Zul'M'Raen, Niebuhr not only did not die from the curse, but also raised an elite force to constantly harass the surrounding areas of Zul'Farrak.
The silent majority of the Sandfury trolls began to realize that they were likely to have a new chieftain. If Ukozi had not brought too much fear to the trolls for a long time, large-scale defections would have begun.
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After handing over the command of the troll troops to Niebuhr, Reed led his team to Gadgetzan.
Compared with two months ago, Gadgetzan has changed drastically. It must be said that the physical fitness of trolls has huge innate advantages compared to humans and goblins.
Even the youngest and strongest have been selected into the army. These trolls can complete 1.5 times the workload of humans with a small amount of food.
Noggenfogg was initially afraid that this would make the trolls dissatisfied, but little did he know that even this would be several times more comfortable than under the rule of Ux.
At the construction site, Li De met Haggard again. His identity was now the head of the human engineering team. At this moment, Haggard was talking to Trunuk in fluent Troll language.
Seeing Li De coming over, Trunuk gave a respectful salute and then left. He knew that Haggard and Li De had something to say.
"What were you talking about just now? Are you so happy?"
Li De asked Haggard with a smile, and Haggard responded with a smile.
"He just asked me about their troll army. This guy is still worried about assigning him to the construction team. It seems that you have handed over the command of the army to Niebuhr?"
At this time in the past, Li De must have still been training in the desert. The new troops would only go back to Gadgetzan or the territory to rest at night. And Li De took advantage of the night to handle his work. It is still daytime
, Li De appeared in Gadgetzan, there is only one possibility, he no longer needs to manage the troll troops.
After receiving Li De's affirmative response, Haggard's expression looked a little embarrassed.
"I understand the army you trained. It is conservatively estimated that Zul'Farrak will be recovered by Nibur within half a year at the latest. By then, there will be a population of over 10,000 within the sphere of influence. But now Gadgetzan and the territory
The food output within the country can support the current population of 4,000, which is already the limit."
Among Li De's three deputies: Haggard, Anderson and Brad, Haggard is in charge of civil affairs and has the most say in the material output of the territory.
"This is indeed a problem. The fishery has now stretched its production capacity to the limit. If we ask for an increase in production, Anderson will fight us desperately. If we want to absorb more people, we must develop animal husbandry."
"What? Animal husbandry?!"
Haggard looked at Li De blankly, wondering if his lord was crazy and starting animal husbandry in the desert?!
"Yes, in animal husbandry, we not only need to domesticate them, but also breed them on a large scale."
As he spoke, Li De stretched out his hand and pointed at the crystal-scaled lizard that was being driven to carry stones in the construction site.
At first, Li De failed to domesticate these crystal-scaled lizards, but luckily he met someone who successfully domesticated them.
On the night when he killed Antusul, Li De's biggest gain was actually not the counterattacker Sansas, but the discovery of the method of domesticating the Crystal Scale Lizard.
Antusul was able to control the Crystal Scale Lizard. Although he was killed by Li De in the end, Li De did not believe that he alone in Zul'Farrak could enslave the Lizard.
After repeated interrogations, among the 500 prisoners, four or five of the guards who managed the lizards for Antusul were discovered. Li De was overjoyed and immediately ordered them to tame the crystal-scale lizards for the territory and gain a chance of survival through labor.
It is worth mentioning that Li De did not hand over these 500 prisoners to Niebuhr, but arranged them all on the Gadgetzan construction site according to their status as prisoners of war. In other words, on the Gadgetzan construction site,
There are a full 1,700 trolls working.
Although they were doing the same job, after working part-time every night, the trolls belonging to Niebuhr and the prisoner-of-war trolls were completely different from the living environment to the level of food.
The topic went too far, and back to Li De's decision to breed crystal-scaled lizards on a large scale, Haggard couldn't help but frown. He was good at domesticating this thing, but when it came to eating it... Haggard couldn't accept it.
"Is this kind of thing really edible?"
Li De was very open-minded.
"Whether it's edible or not, you'll know if you try it. Besides, if you don't eat them, are you going to let those trolls eat people?"
"What you said makes sense, but if we want to raise it on a large scale, where should the feed come from?"
Haggard's question made Li De burst into laughter, and then Haggard himself realized that what he said was a bit stupid. The main food of the Crystal Scale Lizard is Desert Scorpion, and there is a shortage of everything in Tanaris, least of all